Car-coupling



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

MARION JACOBS, OF STURGIS, MICHIGAN.

CAR- COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,183, dated April 24, 1883.

' Application filed August 21, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARION JACOBS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Sturgis, county of St. Joseph, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful improvements in a link-guide of great value in coupling railroad-cars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of-the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertnins to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to furnish a device which will enable a human being to perform the act of coupling cars with the ordinary link and pin withoutthe hazardous exposure of life and limb by being compelled to place himself between the rails and in front of the car and guide the coupling-link with his hand. In order to accomplish this object I journal to the end of the cara rod with its ends bent forward to form angular levers, and then bent inward and connected by a chain, forming a flexibleloop to receive and guide the link when the device is elevated by an operator, who may stand outside of the railroad-rails.

On reference to the drawings annexed it will be understood how the invention can be carried into practical effect, similar letters of reference being marked on corresponding parts on all the'figurcs alike.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the device.

A will represent the end of the car, to which the rod 0 is journaled, with ends bent forward to form an gle-levers for rotating, and then bent inward and connected by the chain-loop E at the ends D.

B will represent the ordinary link-and-pin coupling attached to car A, and F the journals securing the rod 0 to the end of the car A.

Now, having fully described my invention,

what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters 

